Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm64: Add support for Renesas RCar Gen3 H3 Salvator-X platform

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:14:53PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/07/16 13:43, Lars Kurth wrote:
> >
> >>On 7 Jul 2016, at 12:28, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>Also CC Lars.
> >>
> >>On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> >>>(CC Wei for the release part)
> >>>
> >>>Hi Dirk,
> >>>
> >>>On 04/07/16 07:51, Dirk Behme wrote:
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>>Thank you for adding support of a new board in Xen.
> >>>
> >>>During the last hackathon, we discussed about improving pre-release testing
> >>>on ARM hardware [1] and helping users to boot Xen on supported board.
> >>>
> >>>This patch is the first board officially supported since then, so I would
> >>>like to start applying what was discussed (I will put on a wiki page 
> >>>later).
> >>>Below the list of things that I would like to see when a new board is 
> >>>added:
> >>>
> >>>   - Create a wiki page to explain the requirements to boot Xen on the 
> >>> board
> >>>(e.g new firmware if not supported out of box, linux version,...);
> >>>   - Add a link to the new page in [2];
> >>>   - Add the contact details in [3] of someone who would could test
> >>>pre-release and help out users to boot Xen on the board.
> >>>
> >>>I do not expect the latter point to be time consuming. It is basically
> >>>checking if Xen boots before each release and possibly update the
> >>>requirements of the board. For the part helping users, it will mostly be
> >>>question related to booting Xen on the hardware. Others may not be able to
> >>>answer because they do not have the board on their desk.
> >>>
> >>
> >>FWIW having some wiki pages, and most importantly contact details, would
> >>be a good starting point.
> >
> >I did actually create these pages during the Hackathon and sent it out to 
> >the list, but they were not populated by anyone. See
> >http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test
> >http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results
> >
> >>Can we also have a section in MAINTAINERS for different boards (or a
> >>dedicated file?) so that we can easily gather all contact and send
> >>emails in a batch when the release is near?
> >
> >I am not in principle against this, but a concrete proposal would need to be 
> >made. In fact that may be better than using the wiki (given the lack of 
> >traction around it)
> 
> I think a file in the repository would be more formal than a wiki page.
> 
> However, the MAINTAINERS file may not be the right place because some board
> will not have any specific code/file in Xen (e.g the RCAR-3 only add
> earlyprintk). But we would still want to keep track of them for testing
> purpose and advertising the board supported.
> 
> I was thinking to add a file board under docs/misc/arm/boards.txt with the
> list of board and a contact associated I would add some words about the
> "responsibility" of the contact such as:
>    - Testing
>    - Answering questions related to the board
> 
> I would also keep the wiki page [1] (+ a link in the file) to log the
> testing result per release.
> 
> Finally, we may want to track whether the board is "supported", "obsolete",
> "untested"...
> 
> I will try to write a concrete proposal.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results
> 

Having a file under docs/misc/arm is a very good idea.

Wei.

> -- 
> Julien Grall

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